If I had a Macbook Air, I'd have frozen to death...
Lucky for me, my trusty half-ton laptop has an industrial strength power supply that has an auxilliary function as a foot warmer! I shall now perform computationally intensive tasks to prevent hypothermia...
It was cold and rainy, with lots of low cloud. When the cloud lifted, it revealed that what was rain down here in the valley was snow on Buko-san!
posted by ben at 9:33 am
2 Comments:
Hi Ben! Looks still surprisingly cold there. Even a little cold here in Sydney all of a sudden. My parents in the country had frost the other night. I like your time-lapse Buko-san. You asked about the Magnolia flowers. How large are these flowers? They certainly look authentic. There are two other places beautiful for cherry-blossoms in Chichibu (tho' you probably already found them) - Minoyama (beautiful mtn) on the way to Nagatoro (you can ask Haruka to drive you!) or a Cherry temple whose access I saw off the main road as you pedal towards temple #31, I think. Hope you enjoy the solitude: it's amazing what can unfold and remember, how impossible it is to find that kind of solitude and mental spaciousness in Sydney, then you'll lap it up. All the best. Kirsty.
Hey Kirsty, the flowers are large - almost fist sized. Thanks for the stash of bike bits - ive used a few things. I already have a good saddle, but I tried yours anyway. Ill stick with mine, i think - its a bit softer, and the rails allow me to have it further back. I had to install a new front derailleur (the first one i modded to use was fibre reinforced plastic, and broke when it got brittle during winter here) - a reasonable deore-LX unit. its aluminium, so i was able to file it out to fit around the large diameter seat tube on my bike. all seems good now. Do you think you will be visiting chichibu again? cheers - ben
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